[Audacity-devel] Audacity Plugin Submission

[Stewart W. <xe...@gm...>]

Hello,

I would like to submit a plugin to be included with Audacity, if there is
any interest in it.

It's a splitter setup to be used for large Audio Book files. These usually
come in several hour long audio files, and can cause problems with some
players. Ideally people, like myself, want them split into 20 minute long
files, without splitting words in the middle.

Most audio splitters I tested could do eaither time or silence detection.
With time it always cut at 20 minutes regardless if the narrator was
speaking or not, so during track switches you could get cut up words or
stuttering. With silence detection, since it was somebody speaking, you
could end up with thousands of splits as it cut single words or sentences.
No solution I could find offered a mixture of both.

Failing to locate something pre made I made some modifications to the
existing SilenceMarker.ny plugin that comes with Audacity already. This was
a Silence detection splitter, which would label the audio track at
silences. I modified it to add gaps before searchign for the next silence.
I gave the user the option of controlling the length, as well as including
the settings for the silence detection.

I also added an option to make nicer labels, as the default seemed to be
just 'S' for them all with the silence detector. The process allows the
labeled to be given a prefix (for the book name/number) and then a starting
track number. This way when you do an export multiple you can just use the
label names for the file name.

I have used this to update several audio books that I was doing by hand,
and the process has been working perfectly so far. It's quick and very
clean, and I would like to share it with the world if anybody thinks there
is value to it.

Please let me know if it could be included, and how I would best submit it.

Stewart Willis